This is Raquel's new chalkboard. She loves to draw on it and especially to erase things off of it (I think that's her favorite part:). We've been trying to get her to write some of her letters and the other day she made this 'g' all by herself.

She drew this too which I am also very proud of:)

This weekend we went to Yogyakarta, a city about two and a half hours south, to do some shopping. We went to the mall, ate at McDonald's (which also delivers:) and got some things that we needed, including a bike for Raquel which was 'needed' as an outlet for all her energy:). We were picking up another family who had spent a few days in the city and we shared their taxi back to Salatiga. They have a 2 and a 1/2 year old boy that Raquel got to play with.

Raquel was tired on the way there. Since there are no carseats, Daddy makes a fine sleeping place:)

McDonalds anyone? You can get rice instead of fries.